Words only get us so far. That’s why for this week’s blog entry I decided to do some video hunting. It’s amazing what you can find on YouTube — there’s even some stuff for grown-ups. And, for all you lean aspirants out there, there’s more than a small treasure chest of lean-related videos. I’ve provided a short list below, but I’m sure you’ll find more with some additional digging. For those of you baffled by all the talk of Web 2.0, this is a great example — user-generated content distributed over the Internet in the interest of knowledge sharing.

I’ll be on the lookout for other interesting videos, so if you run across something you think would be helpful to Lean Matters readers, send me a link. For now, here are some places to start:

A good demonstration of a cardless kanban system.

A related demonstration of bin replenishment.

Simple tips from a small manufacturing shop, produced by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

And another SME production, this one dedicated to the concept of value-stream mapping.

A nice tutorial — although with poor text resolution — on visual management and 5S.